Day Seven & Thursday Doors 7/4/22: Villa di Radi 2.

This is the last door post from the open-door day last May when I visited three properties south of Siena in Tuscany. But first, two images and a poem. The first was shared today by a dear friend with this quote: When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often

Thursday Doors 31/3/22: Villa di Radi 1.

We have reached the third and last property that I visited on an open-door day last May. This time we go to Radi with a glimpse of Siena on the way and land in Villa di Radi with rich history. Here is the first part of its doors. This is how I proceeded when I

Thursday Doors 24/3/22: Castello Poggiarello 2.

But first, it was seven years ago that Thursday Doors were born. Happy birthday and hurrah to us all! I noticed it since I have the first anniversary Thursday Doors post in my blogging memories today. I checked and indeed, our previous host Norm Frampton started the Thursday Doors as a link-up challenge seven years

Friendly Friday gardens

Yesterday I showed you some doors from one of them, today a brief tour of all three gardens in Tuscany as visited last May on an open-door day. Since Friendly Friday guest host Sofia wishes to see our gardens and since I don’t have one, here are three that I visited just in time, last

Thursday Doors 17/3/22: Castello Poggiarello 1.

On an open-door day last May I did a lovely three-garden tour near Siena but only posted doors from the first garden. What was I thinking? Is St. Patrick’s Day a sign of spring? Because yesterday it happened over here: First I saw the first rows of processionary moth caterpillars, then I heard the first